Lost Cause
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Does this poll indicate the true mission of Islam? Despite all the verbal handjobs from all types of sources that Muslims are peace loving people. Their history does not lie, their actions do not lie. Will we see a holy war between the West and Mideast? Will it come to a twenty megaton overlapping salvo to make peace by conquest?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An overwhelming majority of Muslims do not believe Arabs carried out the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States and disapprove of the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan (news - web sites), a major survey showed on Wednesday.
Despite news reports 15 of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudis, only 18 percent of those polled in six countries said they believed Arabs carried out the attacks, according to a Gallup poll published in USA Today.
Many blamed Israel or the United States, the paper said, buttressing anecdotal evidence of a huge gulf between the West and Islamic countries over the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (news - web sites).
Just nine percent said U.S. military action in Afghanistan was morally justified, while 77 percent said it was morally unjustified. The United States targeted Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s al Qaeda network, which it accuses of masterminding the attacks, and the Taliban militia, their erstwhile Afghan hosts.
Commenting on the poll, President Bush (news - web sites) said the United States needed to do a better job promoting itself.
``There is no question that we must do a better job of telling the compassionate side of the American story,'' Bush told reporters on a visit to Charlotte, North Carolina.
He cited the example of North Korea (news - web sites), where most citizens of that country were not aware that the United States donated 300,000 tons of food each year to help the starving.
``It is essential for us to not assume that the kindness of the country is known and so we have to do a better job of telling the story,'' Bush said.
In what it called possibly the most challenging project in its history, the Gallup Organization found residents of nine mainly Muslim countries viewed the United States unfavorably by a 2-1 margin, CNN said in its account of the poll.
A total of 58 percent of those surveyed had unfavorable opinions of Bush, compared with 11 percent with favorable views, CNN said.
The findings were not immediately made public by Gallup.
Poll respondents overwhelmingly described the United States as ``ruthless, aggressive, conceited, arrogant, easily provoked, biased,'' USA Today quoted Gallup Poll Editor-in-Chief Frank Newport as saying.
Gallup said it carried out 9,924 face-to-face interviews in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Indonesia, Turkey, Lebanon, Kuwait, Jordan and Morocco in December and January.
About half of the world's Muslim population lives in those nine countries. Not every question was asked in each nation, CNN said.
Results were based on the unweighted total of all the interviews, with no statistical adjustments to reflect each country's population. Margins of sampling error ranged from 2 percentage points in Pakistan to 4 percentage points in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Kuwait, USA Today reported.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An overwhelming majority of Muslims do not believe Arabs carried out the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States and disapprove of the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan (news - web sites), a major survey showed on Wednesday.
Despite news reports 15 of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudis, only 18 percent of those polled in six countries said they believed Arabs carried out the attacks, according to a Gallup poll published in USA Today.
Many blamed Israel or the United States, the paper said, buttressing anecdotal evidence of a huge gulf between the West and Islamic countries over the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (news - web sites).
Just nine percent said U.S. military action in Afghanistan was morally justified, while 77 percent said it was morally unjustified. The United States targeted Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s al Qaeda network, which it accuses of masterminding the attacks, and the Taliban militia, their erstwhile Afghan hosts.
Commenting on the poll, President Bush (news - web sites) said the United States needed to do a better job promoting itself.
``There is no question that we must do a better job of telling the compassionate side of the American story,'' Bush told reporters on a visit to Charlotte, North Carolina.
He cited the example of North Korea (news - web sites), where most citizens of that country were not aware that the United States donated 300,000 tons of food each year to help the starving.
``It is essential for us to not assume that the kindness of the country is known and so we have to do a better job of telling the story,'' Bush said.
In what it called possibly the most challenging project in its history, the Gallup Organization found residents of nine mainly Muslim countries viewed the United States unfavorably by a 2-1 margin, CNN said in its account of the poll.
A total of 58 percent of those surveyed had unfavorable opinions of Bush, compared with 11 percent with favorable views, CNN said.
The findings were not immediately made public by Gallup.
Poll respondents overwhelmingly described the United States as ``ruthless, aggressive, conceited, arrogant, easily provoked, biased,'' USA Today quoted Gallup Poll Editor-in-Chief Frank Newport as saying.
Gallup said it carried out 9,924 face-to-face interviews in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Indonesia, Turkey, Lebanon, Kuwait, Jordan and Morocco in December and January.
About half of the world's Muslim population lives in those nine countries. Not every question was asked in each nation, CNN said.
Results were based on the unweighted total of all the interviews, with no statistical adjustments to reflect each country's population. Margins of sampling error ranged from 2 percentage points in Pakistan to 4 percentage points in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Kuwait, USA Today reported.
